Indian women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has completed 3,000 runs in T20I cricket as a captain, becoming the captain with the most runs in the format.
Harmanpreet reached the milestone during India’s third T20I against South Africa in Johannesburg on Thursday, scoring 66 off 38 balls, with seven fours and three sixes at a strike rate of 173.68.
As a T20I captain, she has now scored 3,017 runs in 138 matches and 125 innings at an average of 32.79, including a century and 14 fifties. Her closest rival is Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, who has 3,016 runs in 108 matches and 107 innings at an average of 30.16, with three centuries and 14 fifties.
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Harman The Run Machine
Overall, Harmanpreet Kaur is the third-highest run-getter in women’s T20Is, with 3,947 runs in 193 matches and 172 innings at an average of 29.90 and a strike rate of almost 110, including a century and 16 fifties.
In this away series against South Africa, which India have lost 3-0 with two games left, Harmanpreet has scored 125 runs at an average of 62.50 and a strike rate of over 156, with one fifty.
India Lose 3rd T20I
In the third T20I, South Africa won the toss and elected to field first. Half-centuries from Harmanpreet (66 off 38 balls, with seven fours and three sixes) and Shafali Verma (64 off 46 balls, with eight fours and two sixes) took India to 192/4 in 20 overs. Nonkululeko Mlaba (2/31) was the pick of the bowlers for South Africa.
However, a century from South African skipper Laura Wolvaardt (115 off 53 balls, with 14 fours and five sixes) and an unbeaten fifty from Sune Luus (64* off 42 balls, with six fours and two sixes) powered South Africa to a crushing nine-wicket win with 21 balls to spare.
“I think we should give credit to the South Africa batters the way they batted, and I think they didn’t give us a single chance to come back in the game, even though a few chances we missed out, but I still feel that the way they were batting, I know we didn’t have any second answer for them. And when we looked at the bowling, I think it didn’t go as well as we had hoped it would,” Harmanpreet said after the loss.
(With inputs from Agencies)
